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    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” (Neruda 27). The author, Pablo Neruda is known for creating the poem of “Tonight I Can Write.” Love’s difficulty is present in the poem, a relationship that was once on, and now it is over. He explains how the way he loved her, how he expressed his feeling for her. He claims he has no more feeling for her, but the memories of the relationship are present. He did love her, and he experienced a heart break. Pablo Neruda uses figurative languages like personification

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    DeVera Ms. Talbott English 10 Honors 24 August 2016 Pablo Neruda: Biographical Research Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, commonly known by his pen name as Pablo Neruda, was born on July 12, 1904. Born in Parral, Chile, he was an only child, but his mother died a few weeks after his birth. His father, a railroad worker decided to move to Temuco where he remarried and had 2 kids. Graduating high school at the Men’s Lyceum of Temuco, Pablo has already published multiple poems including, “Entusiasmo

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    Ode To My Socks

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    The narrator compares the socks to other items that may bring warmth and happiness to a person. In the poem, Ode To My Socks, Pablo Neruda, expresses the theme to appreciate the small things in life through the uses of figurative language, imagery and tone, and symbolism. The use of figurative language in the poem helps develop the strong theme of appreciation. Neruda conveys his

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    romantic and understanding poems. “ I Love You Except Because I Do Not Love You” by Pablo Neruda was explains the feelings of someone. “ Remember Me” by Macia A. Newton is was describe every details that spend together Pablo Neruda poem is earnest and sympathetic tone, while Maria A Newton poem is sincere and impassioned tone. The common thing of both poems is a couple have passions and belong together. Pablo Neruda’s poem is about how you can love someone so deeply. However, Macia A Newton’s

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    It is tempting to look at Pablo Neruda as a poetic mastermind, however, he struggled as many people do today. He faced adversity that could happen to anyone in our world today. Pablo Neruda was a pen name of a Chilean man named Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto who grew up in a troubled world and broken home. Ricardo showed a passion for writing at the early age. At the age of thirteen he was already contributing to la Manana, a popular newspaper in Temuco, Chile, where he lived at the time

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    December 2016 Sabolcik AP Literature Poetry Analysis Response “La United Fruit Co.” by Pablo Neruda, is a personal response to the exploitation of Latin America by corporations. The forced introduction of Banana Republics by large outer companies ensured a constant driving force to produce and export cash crops for companies to profit off of, without considering the effect this would have on Latin American citizens. Neruda mourns the countries that fought for their freedom, and are trapped again in a different

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    Basoalto, famously known as Pablo Neruda, is a remarkable Chilean poet born on July 12, 1904. He grew up in Temuco which is located in southern Chile. “Neruda is the most renowned poet of modern Latin American literature and one of the major poets of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971” (McDuffie). “Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime” (“Pablo Neruda”). Pablo Neruda worked to show the social

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    about them. Is it their smile? Personality? Laugh, maybe? The eyes? We can all agree that we all have the same problem. That we can’t exactly explain “why” we love the person. Well in this case, sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda loves his beloved from the inside, not the outside features. Pablo Neruda was born in Chile and his sonnets are originally written in Spanish. He published the 100 Love Sonnets in 1959. He had an affair with his second wife with Matilde Urrutia. Later, they got married in 1966, but

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    21 January 2017 ENG 341 “Ode to My Socks” Analysis In Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Ode to My Socks,” we learn of a young boy who is given a pair of knitted socks from his friend, Mara Mori. The socks were so “heavenly” that he felt unfit to wear them. At the end of the poem he realizes the socks will not do him any good put away and unused. He put on the “magnificent socks” and enjoyed the warmth they brought to him. In “Ode to My Socks,” Neruda uses metaphors, imagery, and tone to highlight the theme

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    Tracy K Smith & Pablo Neruda Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars, takes bits and pieces of inspirations from other artists works. An example of this can be seen in a poem from part four of Life on Mars, in which Smith makes use of Pablo Neruda's poem “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” Neruda has been referred to as the greatest poet of the 20th century, so it is only fitting that Smith uses his work as an inspiration. She uses direct quotation from his poem. Although they both similarly use simple

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